YES! Winnipeg

About YES! Winnipeg

YES! Winnipeg is Economic Development Winnipeg’s business development team, promoting the city as the ideal location for new business, expansion, investment and top talent.

YES! Winnipeg’s experts serve as a concierge for businesses, making it easy to grow and invest in Winnipeg through a suite of specialized services, market intelligence and business connections.

YES! Winnipeg is driven by a community of local business leaders and responds directly to the needs of the industry.

YES! Winnipeg showcases why Winnipeg is an ideal location and steadfast economic climate for business growth. YES! Winnipeg facilitates connections to the people and organizations that can successfully address key decision triggers. Most often this includes:

Navigating government assistance programs

Uncovering pathways to key government officials for permits/approvals

Connecting to the right people/workforce/talent

Sourcing strategic suppliers

Locating ideal real estate for each project

Identifying financing and capital investment partners

YES! Winnipeg is focused on assisting business retention, expansion and attraction within nine key sectors:

Back-office operations, customer and corporate support hubs, application development entities

Data centres

Research, development and testing facilities

Historical Rationale

YES! Winnipeg was created to build a more robust and growing private sector by:

Expanding the tax base

Creating new jobs

Retaining and attracting talented new graduates

Generating real and sustainable wealth

Winnipeg is alive with opportunity. With an abundant supply of renewable hydroelectric energy at among the lowest prices in North America, a central location ideally suited to support a broad customer base and significant trimodal transportation assets (and CentrePort Canada, Canada’s official inland port), Winnipeg punches above its weight. Consider the following:

Winnipeg offers an excellent quality of life; is one of the most stable, consistent and predictable economies in Canada due to a diverse industrial base; and offers among the lowest overall business costs in North America.

Winnipeg is well-known for its supportive community of businesses, industries and academic institutions bolstered by government programs focusing in part on research and development.